We’ll Find Out Soon If Americans Want A Full On Kleptocracy
The Social Contract with Joe Walsh
The Bravery Project
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are not okay. America is not okay. And we all know that. Former Congressman Joe Walsh, |
| 0:08.5 | this is the social contract with Joe Walsh. Let's figure out how to get okay together. Hey, it's Wednesday. |
| 0:30.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:31.6 | I've only got two interesting takes this morning. |
| 0:36.3 | Hope you're doing well. |
| 0:37.3 | Former Congressman Joe Walsh with you this morning. Hope you're doing well. Former Congressman Joe Walsh |
| 0:38.8 | with you this Wednesday morning in this wacky political world in which we're living. Thanks for |
| 0:47.9 | taking a little bit of time out of your day to listen to me opine about a couple of things. Let me start with, and they're both |
| 0:59.8 | important. I was about to say, let me start with the unimportant thing and then get to the important |
| 1:06.5 | take, but they're both important. Let me begin this Wednesday morning with the take that is |
| 1:13.2 | less important and certainly more obvious. The Republican Party is Donald Trump's party. |
| 1:24.0 | Plain and simple, right? Like Trump owns the Republican Party. |
| 1:30.3 | He always has. |
| 1:32.3 | It's always been the case from the moment he came down that escalator, |
| 1:39.3 | gosh, 11 years ago, and said, I'm going to build a a wall and I'm going to keep brown and black people out and I'm going to make Mexico pay for the wall. |
| 1:51.0 | A lot of people didn't realize it then. It took a lot of people to understand later. |
| 1:58.3 | But from that moment on Donald Trump, the Republican Party became Trump's party. |
| 2:05.6 | And it's only solidified. His hold on the party, month after month, year after year has only |
| 2:15.2 | increased. I used to do conservative right-wing talk radio back in the day, |
| 2:21.5 | the first three or four years of the Trump era. And I had a guy, my, my, my, my, um, |
| 2:32.0 | program director, one of my radio bosses, he and I had a running bet year after year. |
| 2:40.7 | He kept telling me that Trump was going to go away. |
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